The Sun. — London, England, 1838-02-07 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HO USE OF LORDS, FEB. G. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at Five o'clock. The Earl of sHAFTESBURY presented a petition from Birminghem, praying their Lordships not to pass into a law the Bill for the Abolition of Imprisonment for Debt. The Earl of DEVON presented a petition from Otter way, in the County of Devon, in favour of the Local Courts Bill ; also a petition from Devonport,in the county of Devon, very numerously signed, objecting to some part of the proposed Bill for the Abolition of Imprisonment for Debt, and praying for alterations in those respects. Lord BROUGHAM said, that what the petitioners wanted on the present occasion, was the power to arrest upon mesne process, which formed a strong ar gumen t illustrative of the necessity of passng the Bill. No doubt other remedies were required for the protection of creditors than were yet pooposed by the Bid, which, when duly considered, would be afforded. Lord WHARNCLIFFE presented a petition from the Guardians of a Union, which was not distinctly heard in the Gallery, praying that the rates upon houses under the rent of 101. a year might be im posed upon the owners ; likewise a petition from the medical practitioners of Wakefield, praying for an alteration in the Apothecaries' Act. Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from Perth, very respectably signed, prating for the Extension of the Suffrage, the Shortening of the Duration of Parliament, and Vote by Ballot ; also a Petition from the inhabitants of Westminster and others, signed by hundreds—he might say thousands—which stated that the petitioners had seen with grief the deplorable calamities which had been inflicted on the Canadian population by the conduct of the British Ministry. They remonstrated against the passing of the u just and unconstitutional Act to destroy the Constitution of the Colony ; and they denied that the connection between the colony and the mother-country was useful to either. They insisted that it served merely as an ex cuse for most injurious restrictions of the trade of both. The petifoners concluded by praying, that the House would take into its roost serious consideration the suggestions of fered in their petit ion; also another petition to the same effect from another pa: t of Westminster ; also apetition from Dent, in the West Riding of Yorkshire ; and another from South Shields, against the present system of Negro Apprentice ship. The Noble and Learned Lord next presented a petif ion from Chelsea, stating shortly the attempt made by her Majesty's Mini,ters to seize on the supplies of Canada, without the consent of the House of Assembly, which they considered in the light of a treasonable act. The petitioners, the Noble Lord observed, were not lawyers, and he presumed that they used the term treasonable as it was us d in common parlance, as against the liberties of the pecele. Aithoueh cot law . aers, the petitioners were not the less honourable and excellent- men. They prayed far an impeachment against Ministers for their condo( t it ith respect to Canada, and' be hoped that no objeetiou could he made against the peti tion on that account, as he recollected - on a former occasion having heard one of the it Lordships make the same proposition. The Noble Lord then presented a petition front the palish of Morland, in the county of Westmorland, praying for the total emancipation of the slat es ; also a petition from Westminster, mainteining the right of every nation to choose its own form of G. - vern merit ; also petitions against the Canada Bill. front Poplar, Wsitechapeh Bethealsgreen, parish of St. John Clerken well, City af Witotnaneer, Borough of Finsbury ; :mother from Westminsrer, on presenting which the Noble Lord observed, that these petitions had Leen signed in verious district:, there hiving been one public ntee:ilig le if Ire vious'y ; also petitions to the same effect from St. Clement Danes, the Boromeh of" Fiiesbnry. the parish of St. Luke's, Chris:, i, the Borough of Lambeth, and pat ish of Zs' e:worth ; also petiticns from London, Lambeth. and Patitiegten, againlt the Ca is Ilan Gaverairent petition; from several places in Scotland, against any grant of the public looney fir the Established Church of Scotland ; a petition from Darlington against the system of Negro Apprenticeship ; a petition from the b rough of Ti verton ageel to at a pub il meeting convened for the pur, use, coamleining of the great peevaletwe of bribery and iltimArrion at the lest election, and ; r tying for the pr recto in of the Ballot ; from triton, to the same effect ; anntl,es from Beelfiird, to the same effect. Also from fa-rsens confined in the Sheriffs' gaol, in favour of the Abolition for Debts 8.11 ; from Andover, an I els, from Birreing,leam, against Negeit Apiprenticesl.ip. HUMBLY." Earl S ETEs heggea to call the attmtim of the Neh'.e and Learned Lord, and :Aso of the House. to the fact that the petition rs in some of the latter petiti.ms whi,h had jt.st Seen pros used had onti!ted to hrein their prayer by tlie usi of the term " lincaqt," which was n , rt in acco . ( h oce whit the forms whie'l the Ilause had prrs,:ribt a f . or the forms of petitions. Lord BROUGHAM s ill there was co want of respect for the Ilou-c in the teams used. '[he petit oners had styled their Lordships not only Honourable-4ot actin:l;y Balled i(iern" Right 11o%ourablo"—thereby descr.btie• them as being teimst a bo7e ail o t:l er pe.son ; aid then said that they " ("—they prayed of their " Right Honourable Lordships, ; ' near'y iinp .rting that the pc , iiioneis conidered they «c re addrt s-in; (wines abo:c huina':—..m I yet ;hat scenic ro: to s c . r Lerdsh;ns Tic E tr! e' I IA I .)DINtIFON confidered the tinestion to be, whether the llouei tLottglit it necessary or : rt t,) ad here form, Leril isROUGHAM—PooII',. There is nothia7, dis respen_ful in the t..r,ns of the Thrre is a word ornitic r j front i;noralee, I htve no doubt, and what of that ? ari, as i,lnorant crirs , lves of of the forms the Hon.,. I s.bloni see a right pass tsithnot finding of th , ,ogh nome 01' tiv, forms. The E lof DE VO N n itkvidiN:Anding the happy art the N,,h:c en; Learned Lord had of turning circumst •lives that rui , flit Lott !o imprtant eons,ven..es pla3fily off fir the monnnt, yet th.it he ref:rutted this as not to bi• irier!rJrkel The fact was, that hi seve , al r!i t;ons v‘incl; lc:d now bopn pros,: nted to the Ike. -e, the addro,s twin wri ten by Cie son Land, and ti!..y had afiet .; Qe.t row) i f9r ions had a I :1 t. 4; i3seri;ol of that word t‘'.!Vt tnif s of tln. pre,crih4 i!, n I un?e,s their Liir isb;p, t to fO m e Vt'edeA:t now, thosr,.. u1371:t Ea to I: , * - _! rs . : &V et!. C! )L'(; II A\l said, as it migl.t he all ve-y w, to abide by the firm; of the liouse until they were changed, he would put an °NI to this eoNt7ever3y by withlrawint.r thelitst pe'ilt'on, which he hal prt.s' nted from I, atae , ll, cn iie grt , ntitt irrp.2;nlari!y, t.. 1 it hallnot. OA, r I iu ; and as n upon whit-1, the t bad tl:eir I..ordsliips need po; win-:ll.'zr the nmi6s'on tt!so in tl.e formt . r t , ett (Ins o not, and the pieedtlet.t would thus be avLide.i.—( Ileac, hear, fl (1111 the Odposition bAichcs.) -I , lj Thursdty. _-~---- 110 USE ()F etiMMONS, FED 6. ELECTION COMNIITTEES. The reduced Lists for the three Cc!inn.ittees billotcd for to-nig;t show upon the Liberals. Terip s . R xburgit List Salford ditto ifswieh ditto In conse'ittenee of these Ballots having talcn place this afternocn, the gallery was no, ope-ted till Ten Nlinntes to Five o'Clock. Mr. AG LION BY b-c ugh• up a re} ort from ti.e Stand ing Order Committee. Dr. LEIROY and Mr. FAZAKERLEY Fesented petitio[s, but the nt,ise and bustle in the House war so gte.it that it was impossible to hear a ward either of the H. n. Mem bers said. RATING SMALL TENEMENTS. Mr. sTA N DISH presF.nted a petition, from whence we did not hear, apinst the Bill for rendering the owners of small tenements liable for the rates thereon. NEGRO APPRENTICESHIP. Mr. SCHOLEFIELD presented a petition from Bir mingham a4ainst the present system of Negro Apprentice ship in tl.e Colon'es. AN HON. MEMBER presented a petition against the Ballot. Also one against the system of Negro Apprentice ship in the colonies. Major MACNAMARA presented petitions from parishes in the county of Clare, for the abolition of tithes, for corporate reform, for the vote by ballot, and for short ening the duration of Parliaments. The Gallant Major stated, that with the petition for the abolition of tithes he entirely concurred. Mr. PARROT presented several petitions against the Highway Rates Bill. Mr. H. PALMER presented a petition from the owners of certain tenements, in Berkshire, against the Bill for rat ing the owners instead of the occupiers of small tenements. Mr. H. BERKELEY presented a petition from 600 householders of Bristol against the Rating of Tenements Bill. ROXBURGH ELECTION COMMITTEE. The Clerk of the Committee appeared at the Bar with the reduced list for the Committee to try the merits of the Roxburgh election. The names were called over by the Clerk at the table as follows :—Mr. Benjamin Hall, Mr. James Duff, Lord William Bentinck, Mr. C. A. Walker, Mr. William Marshall, Sir T. C. Style, Mr. Charles W. Packe, Mr. William Bagge, Mr. Edward Strutt, Sir C. B. Vere, Right Hon. J. A. Murray.—(Cheers.) The Committee was then sworn at the table, and with drew for the purpos e of choosing a Chairman. Mr. WYNN begged to call the attention of the Speaker to the fact that the Act of Pariiament required that the reduced list should be presented to the House half an hoar after the terminatio n of the ballot. Now half an hour had not elapsed since the third ballot had been taken, and therercre the Counsel should be admonished that they w: .r.; not complying with the terms 0f the Act. IPSWICH ELECTION. i The reduced list for the Committee upon this election was then handed in and called over by the clerk. The names were as follows :—Mr. M. N. Parker, J. W. Brams ton, T. E. Winning-ton, the Hon. J. C. Westenra, Richard Jenkins, William Evans, Sir Robert Heron, R. B. Hale, H. Broadlcy, and Robert Archbold. The Cortaniace having been sworn, withdrew. _ _ _ SALFORD ELECTION. The Reduced List for the Committee upon this Election was then handed in, and having been called over by the Clerk, the following were the names of the Mem bers for.ning it :—Henry Salwey, Nicholas Fitzsimon, J. R. Ormsby Gore, Lord Maidstone, Alexander Ellice, J. Heathcote, the Earl of Euston, Thomas Bowes, Lord Charles S. Manners, W. N. Macnamara, and the Hon. John Bruce O'Niel. The Committee having been sworn, withdre.v. JOINT STOCK BANKS. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER rose to move for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the law with respect to clerical members of Joint Stock Banks. He said his mo tion was rendered necessary in consequence of a late decision in the Court of Exchequer, by which it appeared that it was unlawful for a Clergyman in Orders to be a member of any Joint Stock Company. It appeared that in 1717 a Bill was introduced in the other House, which afterwards passed into a law, which prohibited all spiritual persons from engaging in any trade for gain or profit, and imposing a pe nalty upon any one transgressing the law. In that Act, there was a provision upon which the late decision was founded. The result of this state of the law would be, that if any Clergyman became a proprietor of Stock in any of those Companies, not being Charter Companies, but being Joint Stock partnerships, that the Companies in question would be incapacitated from recovering any just or lawful debt,and it might be pleaded inbartoany attempt madetorecoveradebt from persons who had been engaged in business with them, that there was a clergyman a member of the Company ; :hut lie was engaged in trading, contrary to the intent and meaning, of the 57 Geo. 111., and consequently they were not entitled to recover a just debt. He (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) believed that construction to hare been put upon the Act quite unexpectedly. No individual ever imagined the prohibition justly put against Clergymen trading for the purpose of profit was to be a prohibition against their investing money in a species of stock, in Joint Stock Companies, like any other stock. The Bill he asked leave to introduce was founded on proceedings that had lately taken place in the Court of Exchequer. In that case the Northern and Central Bank, a Bank with which the public had been too familiar, having taken pro cee&nsi,s to recover payment of a bill of exchange from a person cf the name of Franklin, Mr. Franklin pleaded there veers two clergymen belonging to the Joint Stock Company, end that consequently the Company were not entitled to re- Ms cr ; and the Court of Exchequer held that that was a good plea. He, therefore, trusted the House would s'e it was ahsolute'y necessary that the state of the law should be altered. The construction put en the Act by the Court of Exchequer was in point of fact a surprise on the whole world, and therefore he thought the Bill which he intended to introduce ought to be passed into a law. The conse quence of the decision of the Court of Exchequer would he, that not only penalty and loss would be inflicted on the clergyman who might be a member of the Company, but penalty end loss would be inflicted on every individual who mieht be concerned in those Companies ; therefore, if the case was good on the first hypothesis, it beanie doubly impertant as aen,licable to the second. It was not only en behalf of these Joint Stock Banks that be asked lea: e to introduce the Bill, but . on behalf of all jaii4 stock partnerships, 81101 as Canal Companies, Rsil nest Corop tides, and others, which, not bring ineorpt rated, would come a ithio the decision of the Lea! ned Judges. Parties miaht be ruined to an extent scarcely calculable. To cite the II 1:1%0.ore idea of whit might he the result, if this state of the law were armed to continue, he might stote that tiler , were lOS Joint Stock Banks in operation, c irr t ing on 1 usiness through 474 branches, having a coeital, censistieg of 2.771000 shares, and a no minal capital of C 6,000,000/. If the low of the Court of ExcLequt r were to be held corteet by the invalidation o! (In , single s: ate of 5/. hilly, preceedings- might be i :validated to a tncst serious extent. Having stated the nature ef the etil which he meaet to remove, lie would now explsin the neture of the remedy which he intended to propose. That !comedy, if operative at nil, most be retrospective. If it were only prospective, it would not prevett the inconveaience and evil which ro A llt ilr:7.e feom procee lints which had already been ador ed. Toe object was to ealry lot, .:{T,ct the contract i:ecortial; to the understantruig of the part es at the tiina it was e::tetcl itlto. If that object cure ii t cattle], it would be a premium to p_rties to take adk . ova , c et' a ! ircornstance of which they were not awera at the time they entered into the contract, • in order to free themst Ives from its ohligation. In Bills of 1 an analaaeus chorecter, which had been introduced with a re trot; cctive operation, it hid been usu l to introduce a sa ein :. el use with r3.p. et-to exist ng• ,11 . ts ; hut it was not is t. , :d dto int l uee such a clause into this Bill, or it putlei to &feat a cnntract by pFedit,g a filet of which the:, w• - 2r; ignorant at the time tbe contract wz.n. entered into. A clause. was introduced into the Bill to a: and costs to p .rties who Lel instituted proce, , div,g!;. Th,sa were the main provis'o :s. At the same time it was right to mention that the Holt', bad a right to consider the Bill in rAerchee to the great question now under cocci leration. As to the law of !:artrn:rsinip, there was a orreetion in re,peet to the banking laws of some incoave n ences which hat been found to arirn Whilst the Bill was to • ,true a r..ttosp,ceti; e he proposed that it should not be i - :erp,tall Aet, but that it should on'y lint until the next s ssi.ma of Purl ametit. The same coarse had been taken ith respect to a BL of an analogous character introduced in 1323. AB ll was lnought into Pi.rliament preventing actions beiog brought against the Clergy, an i it was ottiy for a period.—( Hear, hear.) For the sane reason, he rrop:ased that the Bill should not be a porpetu rl one, but to give a he nedy retrospective in its on. ration, o ly s ,,a jog to the patties engaged in the actions ri g ht c f rn'e'ving costs at the tin retioo of the Court. i ing et:de:some ito xjain ol.; eta he had in ' . O v, 1,0 t is (31)1 tn he ,ho:11 , 1 move le,vo to ,brieg -*to a Bill to leg tizea c ntuin Coo n-,.ts which had been, cr might he, entered in:o by ecet.tin hankers, or sharchold•rs of blanking co-pa:um:l:hips. Mr. WARBURTON begged to ask the BLitt Hon. Gin,tleinan whether it was his intention to intrAuce any cl use to pt.:went Clergywea Lo!ding offices as Managers or D - r.n.nors of tionte Companies The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER sit:el t!t-re. as no prohibitory ci is in the B 1. Its object was o•i%e taliAity to contracts which had lite). been made. I:" the House would det-rn it e%p•tnlient to it such :1 ;:n - ov . s.on, he would lie ready to discuss the qlestion, lan t tim present was not the prap;:r time. The subject could be more prod ,- rly introduced when the Church Bill, now in:on the table of the House, was brought forward. In that kill there were curtain clauses to prohibit clergymen inter ing in trade, and if it were considered necessary a clause rni ,, ht be introduced to prevent their acting as Directors or Managers of these Companies. His Hon. Friend must be awrre that at the present mom nt there was no prohibition to Clergynien being mernlyrs of chartered Compar,ir2s. He would take the University Life Insurance Company, awl he found that the Archbishop of Canterbury was at its that the 'Vice-Presidents wen: all Bishops. and that many of the Directors were Clergymen of the Established Church. Whatever the policy of the law might be, he could only repeat that the present was not the proper time. Mr. THOMAS ATTWOOD Loped the Right Hon. Gentleman would reflect a little before he gave effect to such a Bill. Forty years ago all Joint-stock Banks were deemed a nuisance by law, and the shares were not trans ferable. He hoped the Right Hon. Gentleman would not persevere in his present proposition. Mr. HINDLEY thought the BM ought to have a re trospective effect. Love was then given to bring in the Bill. PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS (SCOTLAND). The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER then moved for leave to bring in a Bill for the establishment of additional parochial schools in certain parishes in the Highlands of Scotland. The Right lion. Gentleman stated that he had been induced to introduce this measure in consequence of a deputation having waited upon him on the subject. From the representations of that deputation he was convinced that further schools were required ; but for the purpose of increasing them it was found necessary that the law should be altered, because as it at present stood, schools could not be established in the dif ferent parishes in the Highlands of Scotland upon the same system as they at present existed. He, therefore, asked for leave to bring in the present Bill, to enable him to carry the engagements he had entered into with the deputation into effect.—( Hear.) It was only right. that he should say that he had been in communication with the Committee of the General As sembly. They had made a proposition to him that those schools should not be in the nature of ordinary parochial schools, but that they should be under their direction. He intended to establish no new principle whatever ; he meant that they should he established on the same principle as the ordinary parochial schools, and on these grounds he founded his motion. Mr. HUME was perfectly aware that no man, who had att: coded to the Reports which had lately been laid upon the table with respect to this subject could doubt for a moment that it was absolutely necessary for the Govern ment to extend the means of education in Scotland. It ant -oar e d that in many n,.;.,t,..9 in F.m.l.lncl were more children enjoying education than in many parishes in Scotland, a fact of which he was not at all THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7- k 338. aware until lately. The question was, whether the syst, m proposed by the Right Hon. Gentleman was the best that I could be adopted. The Right Hon. Gentleman has alluded to certain agreements which he has made with certain par tics. Now, he would put it to him whether it would not be better that those agreements should be laid before the House.—(Hear, hear.) He had seen many objections from Scotland as to the arrangements made, and finding considerable fault with the conduct of the Trea sury, in applying the money voted by Parliament for the purpose of building school-houses to the support of school masters--certainly, an object very wide of that which was contemplated. The great object of the petitions which he had seen from Scotland, was, that the plan of the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, should be, that the public funds should not be placed in the hands or under the controul of tlmEe who represented only a portion of the community. He (Mr. Hum e ) doubted the propriety of proceeding to grant any more money, until the Government laid before the House a general plan, and individuals had been appointed responsible to enter into the real state of the coun try, and lay their recommendations before the House. The public money ought not to be placed in the hands of a particular class in the country, but the system ought to be based upon a wider footing. He (Mr. Hume) had been considerably disappointed that the Government had not in troduced some plan for promoting education in this country as well as in Scetland, and by which the money voted for that purpose should be applied under responsible management. It was really lamentable to see the state of i g norance . in which many of these parishes were. In a petition which he had occasion to present not long since on this subject, there were out of 150 signatures 4'2 marks. He found also by the Report that in one of these parishes, containing a population of 1,095 souls, there were only 17'2 children, between the ages of five and fifteen, who could read, and 96 who could write, making a proportion of 1 in He ventured to express a doubt whether the plan ought not to be more generally extended, and thought they ought to know the principle on which the money was applied, and in whose hands it was placed, before they voted any more money. Mr. COLQUHOUN said the money was not wanted for the building of schoohhouses or the building of mas ters' houses, but for the salary of the master. The Hon. Member had stated that that was an interference with the general system of education which he had devised, and which, at some future period, he would feel it his duty to submit to the House. The Hon. Gentleman stated that it was a narrow system—that it was a system in which tco much controul and influence was given to clergymen, and that they possessed undue influ encs, in these schools. But the Hon. Member must satisfy the House that there were objections which would weigh taints the people of Scotland, and he would quote the autho rity of an Hon. Member who entertained large and liberal views on the subject of education—he meant the Hon. Member for Waterford (Hear, hear,) who had stated that the evils of Ireland had arisen from the in adequacy of education, and that they were perfectly curable under the controul and superintendence of a proper system. If the Hon. Gent., would only look at Mr. Wyse's Essay, he would find very strong and emphatic testimony on this subject ; and he spoke ill terms highly laudatory of parochial education in Scotland and of the exertions the General Assembly hal male. As the Honourable Member Lad called him up by the observations he had mad..., p haps, he could allow him to state that he hoped the sins tem which had been applied so suitably ton sm ell section of tho Highlands of Scotland, would be introduced goner illy. There were in the Highlands of Sentland2lll parishes ; the Hon. Gentleman's Bill wits applicable to only 41. The law of Ssotland required there should ho one school in each parish. The average extent of the p-triduis in the Highlands was ;350 square miles, and the sum provided by lam WAS wholly inadequate to the wants of the population. The masters were starved down to the lowest scale. And sach was the effect of the voluntary system, that the average remuneeation of the sclalohn .stern was la a veer, and, in the Shetlands, no more than 3/. The landed proprietors had by voluntary subscription raised money for the support of a great number of sehoele, but es th-y were not sufficient, the inhabitants had appliel to the Right honourable Gentleman, who hail most wisely ensile to tlia; House upon the subject.. So imperfect was e location in the part to winch he referred, that no lesS thin 30,009 persons could not write, 15,000 c.mld not read, and no less than 6,009 ellildren were totally deprived of attending schools a t a''. In the small section of the Highlands to which the Right lion. Gentleman had referred, there were wanting at least 100 schools, arid he believed that the proposition of the It : silt Hon. Gentleman was to increase them only to 49. The Hon. Member proceeded to state some instances of the strong attachment of the highlanders to education _AI; persons. without reference to party pohties, without in curring the risk of being infiuenced:by sectarian rn wires, would pay their gratJul testimony of approbation to the lii r!.t. Hen. Gentleman for the introduction of this tw!asure. Mr. WYSE said notwithstanding the great munificence of the people—notwithstanding all the energies of the Church—still it was an acknowledged fact that all had failed in prof fling sufficient schools—suficielt school-houses to supply the wants of the people ; therefore those who attended to the subject must conic to the conclusion, that volubtar3 lien avv, not sufficient to meet the wants or the people, and that State interfcreece., i orrice to be efficient, must be carriedout to its fullest extent It the Hon. Gentleman had carried his ohse.rvationsei little further, he would have found thst he (Mr. W.) stated that the system of education in Scotl..n.l showed what n,ialit be done by giving it greeter efficient: What the Ilenouraele Member for Kilkenny h complained of was, not that it was not good, but that it was not good ceough—( Hear, hear)—not that . it did not offer sonic good to the people of Saotiand, but that it did not give all that the popnlatien of S (Aland requ:r.id Ail the lion. Merida...li for Kilkenny desired W-13, that if all this money were granted for building schools in Seothaeil a sufile:ent guarantee should he given, that in the buiitling of schools a proper system of education should he carried on w:thin their walls. Thet conk! not be e lf...cited un s, such a holy was appointed as would be respon ,ible to Grn . ernitient for the conduct. of these schools. ..ens unworthy the intellect of that House to sit thcre meet after nielit voting away large sums, unless a proper responsible guarantee was afforded them for their ap not, they would fled that the steal would resent iti large promise and miseraqv small perforne,nee. Mr W. CAMPBELL did n }t intend to trouble the Huse with many observations, because be agreed with a r od deal of what had fallen from the previous speakers. He pelt most grateful to the Chancellor of the Exchequer fer brin g in g t hi s measure b e f ore t h e H ous e. Persons in Scotl a nd were rea d y to arne forward analpay say sum fir the purpose of buildiee sel-..001s and sc hookholliC3. 'l'nee were also ailliug to giv,t lands for glebe holves, but the difficuity was to find s tiaries far the sehoo'rnasters. Teis he lAi...ved the Bill of the Chancellor of the Exchequer intended to do. 'rite Church of • Scotland was oaly superintendeet of those S2book to see that im proper persons did not fill situations connected with them. Trio Ministers of the Church of S c otland were super intendents of the masters, and moreover, cue of the greate,t, philanthropists that had existed since the d a y s of Howard was expending his time, his money, and his labour, in promoting normal schools. He (Mr. W. Camp bell), as a Scottish Highlander, and a person haring an estate in that part of the empire, felt grateful to the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the measure he had brought forward. Mr. R. STEUART had seen with great satisfac tion the introduction of this measure by his Right Hon. for he was convinced from the first that it would lead to a general inquiry into the system of education in Scotland. The state of the Schoolmasters in the Highlands was what it was 000 years ago.—( Hear, hear, hear.) Ht then ranked next to the Clergyman, and was supposed to be the next person to him, with respect to education, in the parish ; but look at the difference of their incomes—that of the Clergyman was increased, while that of the School= master was exactly the same. The present Bill was in his opi nion a step towards bettering the condition of that class of me n. He (Mr. S.) thought his Right Hon. Friend would secure to himself the gratitude of the country for his en deavours on behalf of education in Scotland. Mr. WALLACE thought the masters ought not to be chosen for life ; but as it was in Scotland, in former times, only so long as they devoted all their energies to their work.—(Hear.) It would be his endeavour in the progress of the Bill to introduce this provision. Mr. GILLON said his Hon. Friend the Member for Greenock had not too strongly characterised the present system of education in Scotland. It was not only faulty, but disgraceful. It was not so much money that was wanting to improve the system, but the taking away of its present sectarian character. Captain GORDON expressed the gratification which he felt at the proposition of the Right Hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. BO RTH WICK hoped that the Chancellor of the Exchequer would extend the principle of the Bill to Ire land as well as to Scotland. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in re ply, said that the system proposed was one of normal semi naries, and in accordance with the old parochial regulations of Scotland. After a few words from Mr. PRINGLE, l eave was given to brine- in tine Bill. DESERTION IN CANADA. Captain BOYDERO — Moved for " a return of the num ber of deserters from her Majesty's troops stationed in the Canadas, between 1830 and 1837." The Hon. and Gal lant Member said that his object was to establish some tr pr , ,wrnt thn crime or (le 2 Wi^n that was an incontestabie fact that tull a fourth of one corps had deserted in the course of a single year. For his thinking a more extensive diffusion of honorary rewards among the soldiery while in the service, and at the expiration a cer tainty of some solid pecuniary reward, should be held out as an inducement against desertion.—(Hear, hear.) Ano ther objectionable circumstance connected with this subject was the mode now in existence of relieving regiments on foreign service. Young men were sent out to Canada from this country without having seen any previous service abroad, and without any special inducement to remain with their regiments. That was the cause of desertion—not alone in Canada, but in others of our colonies. In his opinion young men should be sent to serve some time in the Mediterranean—Corfu and Gibraltar, for instance—be fore they were sent to Canada. The greater proximity to the natural period of their discharge, and the advantage arising from the pension which follows, would have the ef fect of preventing desertion, more than any system, how ever rigorous, could do. Added to this, if, under existing and unavoidable circumstances, young men were obliged to Canada, he thought making it known that a grant ofland— say ten acres—or an equivalent in money equal to the ex pense of the passage back, w mild be given to those soldiers who should be discharged at the conclusion of the civil war, and wish to settle there, the Government would be sure of the best possible description of service. It was a subject every way worthy the attention of the Noble Lord (Lord Howick) opposite. One other topic connected with it should not be passed ever lightly. It was the prevalence of volunteers for Canada from amongst those young men, es pecially those from Ireland, who had relatives settled in the United States. He (Captain Boldero) thought that as these men might be sobjected to suspicion at the least, it was the more incumbent on the Noble Lord to take every requisite step to prevent the possibility of desertion from among their number. Lord 1-10 WICK could not see in what manner the re turns could be of any use to the Hon. and Gallant Offieer in checking the crime of desertion. A knowledge of the pre&se amount of desertions which had taken place in Canada in the time stated would afford materials for a plan to that eff -et, and it would only be productive of inconve nience to the Government and perhaps injury to her Ma j :sty's service, to publish at the present moment the details required by him. He could, however, assure the Hon. Member that, though he did not consider it his duty to concede these returns, the object to which he referred them had not been lost sight of by the Government. A lung co.le , pondenee, on the contrary, bad taken place be tween the War Office and the militia autholities in Canada and in this country, on the best mole of suppressing the e dine of desertion, so prevalent hitherto, in the British North American colonies, and every requisite means were alopted to prevent it. He (Lord Howick) was happy to say th a t th e cr i me o f d es ertioti bad not been so gr.:at since he breaking out of the civil war in Canada. In deed, he belie ve d , th a t no one d eser ti on h a d t a ken place . sn e commenced. With respect to the suggestion made by the Hon. and Gallant Officer, he (Lord Howick) felt called on t) state that variou.; measures had been adoptedat differesnt times, and many of them were now in operation, to effect the ends he now proposed. It was not eighteen months since he (Lord H ow i c k) h a d b roug h t f orwar d some o f t h em in the army estimates him se lf ; and, as far as he could per tve, the plan th en a d opte d b y th e H ouse was wor ki ng as e ell as could he exp ec t e d. Captain WOOD said that if the returns gave any incon ven once to her M a j et t y ' s G overnmen t, or cou ld h a ve in the slightes t . degree the eff ec t o f m ilitating against her Ma je,ty'a serve_e, he would be the last man in the House to them ; but he confessed he could not himself clearly ea) ho . e.it WAS p oss ibl e t h ey s h ou ld h ave t h a t e ff ec t. I n i is ~pinion the m a in cause o f d esert i on m i g ht b e a tt r ib u ted o ;he inadequacy of the pension given to the soldier on the ex piration of his servitude. Sixpence a-day, which the last warrant granted, was quite insufficient as a remunera tion fur past services : nod the soldier who had wasted his and strength in dangers and distant climates often found himself ob:igeel to have recourse to the workhouse on his ei se haree and retuin to his own country. Mr. LEADER hoped the Hon. and Gallant Officer would ;.:ersist in his motion, as the Noble Lord had given ~o re mon whatever for his refugal to accedt, t o it. He ( Mr. Lealer) had been taunted a month ago with having h id out indlieetnents to desertion in Can Ada by shting the fart that exttnsivo desertion thece was a thing of daily and increa.ing recurrence ; bat the Hon. and Gallant Officer r.-ho had moved for these retur:is had said precisely the s !me thin;, acd yet no one accused him of anything akin :o -Ugh t-eAsun. There was every reason why the Noble Lord 5 - ould oceede to the motion, and none whatever fur hip refual of it. Mr. HUME regretted that the Hon. and Gallant Mem ber, in he undostool, was not about topress his mmion, :'or he could. cot conceive anything more likely to be of use to the -...oldiers and the service at large. He thought the ohs,rva‘lons of the lion. and G.llant - Member for Aidale s,"; re,p •rtin ; .z . Vie dates of easituent of deserters required ,ionle at'ent . o3 iron the Noble Lord. Mr. SHAW could not regret the course tak .n by the Noble Lord, inasmuch as :f the returns moved for by the Hon. awl Gallant Member were 'lox made public, the mind of the country mi4l,t be unnecessarily and injuriously alar.ned. He hoped his lion. and Gallant Frinid would inn press his motion. _ _ _ Mr. BORTHWICK ',greed with the Rig!it Hon. G.nlfentan who spice last, and hoped with him that his Hon. and Gall Int Friend would not press his motion to a div silt). He could not, howevor, conceal from himself the f ~,t that on bringing the subject under the considcrAtion of the Noble Lord, his Hon. and Gallant Friend had done the coultry :zeod service. L-rsi HO WICK, in reply to the Hon. and Gallant Member - for Middlesex, stated that he did not give his rea sons far refusing the inotian of the Hon. and Gallant Officer, the Member for Ciiippeallani, because he had understood !hat it was not the intention of the Hon. and Gallant Gon d man ta press it to a division ; but. he had no possible ob jectiot:s to st ste them then. They were these—that if returns of the number of desertions fern the army in Ca nada were made and printed by the authority of that House it might, perhaps, have the effect of suggesting the crime to ho would not have been so disposed of themselves. Tii tt was the opnioa of the highest military authorities in t is country, and it was likewise their opinion that no pos ,ible benefit to the service of the State could accrue born Betides this, a return such as the Hon. and Gallant .officer moved for could give no materials for judging of the amount of actual dssertien, or founding any measure for it s prevention. He (Lord II.) would not undertake to say that great is convenience might not result from it at any time ; but at such a time as the present, at all events, he thought it his i!uty to refuse it. With respect to the inadequacy of pensions to soldiers, alluded to by the Hon. and Gallant Member for Middlesex, he felt called upon to say,' that it was much too wile a subject to enter upon in an incidental discussion ; but be ould not refrain from observing that he was sorry to hear such a misrepresentstioa of the fact from the mouth of any m litary man, in connection with respect to the subject. Sixpence a day was the . very least that any soldier could hive ; but a much larger remuneration was given by the ex . sting warrant for long services, great dangers, and good conduct. However, whenever that subject should be introduced he (Lord Howick) would be prepared to point out to the House the alterations made in that branch of the expenditure, and prove that they have worked well, rot alone for the service, but for the soldier also. Ths Honourable and Gallant Officer had suggested tint the inadequacy of the pensions on the last warrant was the chief cause of desertion in the army ; but he (Lord Howick) would he able distinctly to show that the greatest amount had taken place previous to that war rant having been made out. It was true that those soldiers who deserted ware generally men who bad seen the least se rvice, and who had, therefore, the remot e st c l a i m t o a pen sion. But he (Lord Howiek) was enabled, from a search ing and attentive analytical investigation of the facts, to s tate that less desertion had taken place among the men who had enlisted since the promulgation of the last warrant than among those who had enlisted previously. Captain BOLD ERO replied briefly, and asked leave to withdraw the motion. The motion was accordingly withdrawn. MEDICAL CHARITIES (IRELAND). Mr. FRENCH moved for leave to bring in a Bill for the better regulation of hospitals, dispensaries, and other medical charities in Ireland. The Hon. Member said that the Bill he proposed to bring in was the same as that he brought in last year, with two exceptions. The first was the appointment of an unpaid Medical Board in Dublin ; and the second, the taking away the monopoly which the College of Surgeons of that city enjoyed, of placing surgi cal officers in the medical charities of Ireland. The medi cal authorities of that country, he was happy to be able to add, concurred with the object of the Bill. Mr. SHAW would not oppose the Bill in that stage, e specially as the Hon. Gentleman had stated that the highest medical authorities in Ireland approved of the meas ure. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER gave the measure his concurrence. He knew that the surgical school in Ireland was considered abroad as the best in the em pire, and needed no protection against foreigners, as it had no reason to fear their rivalry. He was glad that the Bill was in the hands of his Hon. Friend, who might feel a ssured that the Government would gladly render every aid in the accomplishment of so desirable ail object. The Bill was then brought up by Mr. FRENCH, read a first tune, and ordered to be read a second time on the first open day. Mr. WALLACE brought up the report oa the Court of Session (Scotland) Bill and on the salaries of officers, w hi c h was read and received. Mr. STEUART brought up the Bill to provide for patflMt4llment parishes in the Highlands of Scothind, aid the House adjourned at a Quarter before Eight o'Clock. PRICES OF CANALS, DOCK STOCKS, ASSURANCE 121PANIES',&c. &c. &c. LONDON, TUESDAY, FEB. 6. i Number Dividend Price of per CANAI. S . per ilsares. Annum. Paid. Share 1. - r6O 7 per cent. A shtan and Ordham....Average 971.185. sh. 155 L 485 as, Ashby-dcle-Zouch Average 113/. sh. 65 1,260 Basingstoke lOOl. sh. 5 1,005 5!. Brecknock and Abergavenr.y 150.• sh. 100 2,000 I -16 sh. 91.65. Pirningham, I-16th share .65ei. Se 711. 17 . 1 4,000 Drtto and TAVCCI,6OI 3 unct...1551 oh. 10 0 pti 26 600 35 Bridgewater and T a unton ....1001. she all pd 01 400 41. Chelinee and Blaekwater . lO6l. sh. 1152 500 48/. Coventry .95/. sh. 700 4,545 Croydon 2,0,59 41. Os. I hidiey lO9/ she 23 6 5 0 71. Derby 100/. sh. 155 25,000 4 per cent. Danube and Mayne 4l/. 13s. 4d .pd 33 , i 3,5753 3/. Ellesmere and Chester Average 133/. sta. 77 231 419. Erewash :WU. sin 700 1,297 21/. Forth and Clyde Average 4001.165. oh. 585 1 1,00 121. Grand Juncti, n. lour. sh. 250 5,5414 11. Grand Union 1001 . sh. 25 1 500 Grand Surrey ..,... ... 100!. sh. 20 20,000/. 4/. percent. Dltso (optional) Loan lO9/. '7O 3,e95 Oran,: Western 600 13/.11 ) A. 5.1. Gleirnorganshire, Average cost 172/. 131.4 d. 25 0 749 10t. Grantham 1501. sh. 25: 6,238 22. Os Huddersfield As erage 571. (Is. 00. she 37 lila Kensington 100 sh all pd. 10 25,311 11. ss. Kennet snd Avon, Average 39/. 18s. 10d. sh. 26 2,307 i 251. Leed6 and Liverpool 'OOl.BO. COO 545 f 131. Leicester l4Ol. sh. 295 1,597 4/. 10s. I Picester And Nortliarninon...Aver 53/.100. 91 2,400 101. Monmouthshire 100/. sh. 25 , 150 10/. Melton Nowt - way 1001. eh. '2OO 500 25!. Mersey and Irwell lOO/. sh. 565 ' 1 .3.000 1/. 10s. Macclesfield 1001. sh. all pd. 52 217 17/. Neath - 1001.11. 525 1 ,796 Sill. - Oxford. 100. sh. 535 ,400 5/. Peak Forest Average about 781. eh. 154 4,111 12s. Regent's (or London) Aver. 33!. 166.5 d. sh. :6 ' ,6'9 6/. per cent. noehdale Average 811!. eh. 111 550 8/. Shropshire /0.51. sir. 138 SOO 5!. 10s. Somerset Coal 1501. oh. 1514 o,oeo/. 43 percent. Ditto lock Fund Stock l2l. 10s. sh. 113 760 40!. Stafford and Worcester l4Ol. sh. 710 500 91. Shrewsbury 125/. sh. 250 300 91. Stourbridge 3,017 2!. us. Stratford-on-Avon ...Average 721. 9e. tsl. ch. 50 553 15/. Swansea lON. sh. 231 3,762 I/. 15s. Severn and Wye and Railway-Av. 351. Ih. 27 60 elan. 321. 10s. Trent and Mersey, 1 share 100/. sh. 560 4,119 Thames Aid Medway... Aver. 191.55. Sd. sh. '2 0)(1sh. L i 15/ Warwick aad Birmingham 1001. sh 265 950 lir. Warwick and Napt lOOl. sh. 185 6,000 41. Os.. Worceet•sr anti Birminghsm...Av.7B/.81. oh. 794 5,001) 255. Wilts arnt Berk. .. Average 67!. 10s. Sd. oh. 22 000 31, Wyrley and Essington 125/. sh 75 ItT) ..... W is h eac h lO5l. sh. 45 905 P. trey and Arun llO/. sh. 2 3 Do'.°Kli. '2,600k 3p. e Commercial 100 /. eh. 57 'l,oo.sfsh 493,6571/. 6 per ct East India 7,205,310 V. 511 s. p.et. Landon Ditto Bonds 5) °310, 1 _1001. ii!. p. ct. West India stock 9 . * . :2.10 0 21. i 05. Bristol 3.241. 51. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts lll - 1;12,702 5 percent. St. Katharine stock 100 500,005 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds . `200,009 . se: cents Ditto Bonds Ira' 10 years 193 Shorehani 110 r hour .2.500 ........ Dep'ford Pie, "0/. sh. 31. BRIDGES. .1,600 1 0 s. Ham mersm 1: 5Ol. sh. 224 7,531 Southwark, Old 4... C 3/. 2s. 80. sh. 2 1,700 IL 15s. - Ditto, Ncw, of 7; per cent. 5Ol. oh. I 4 - 5,000 Waterloo 5,000 Ills. Sd. Ditto, Old Annuities of , 11. .... 6O/. pd 19 • 5,000 If.. 441. Ditto, New Ditto of 7/.... 50,000/. 5!. per cent. Pitro Bonds ll5 5,24 17s l'auxhsil Average 70/. 113 s. 3d. sh. 18 AS• I LRANCIn COMPAN:ES. '2,000 3110 s Albion 5001. sh. 501. pd 11 , 1 0,()6) E s g,', c i e : . } Alliance, British & Foreign 1001.3 h. 101/. pd it 50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Manic 10')/. Oh. 51. pd 63 24,000 31 per oh. Atlas 50/. sh. 51. pd 14 1,500 3sh. 5/. Birmingham i ire 20,000 41 per cent. (British Fire 2501. sh. 50/. pd 42 • 12,1)00 tit per cent. Rritish Commarcial 501. On 5/. pd q 5,001) st. per cent. Clerical, 'Medi al, etc. Life, ICOLsh. 2/10s pd 4 4 ' 4,000 21 :Ss County 1001. sh. 10/. pd 2 20,000 ss. Eagle Ec .„,, n s 5 per cent./ onomic I.iin lOOOl. she 2501. pd 373 • ` 7 /and 301 bs. $ 2,071 225. per cent. European 15 OO/. sh all pd '2'2 ~600 .2s. Ditto, New ... 'Ol. $ll 21. pd II ,000,000/. 7/. per et. Globe ,000 51. Guardian...,. 1001.31.2731 pd 33 10,000 es. lid. Hope 5O/. she 51. ird 51 , 2,100 5/. 7c. 651 I inlicrin IF ir 5OOl oh. 501. pd 1261 7,500 9s. Imperial 1.51 a 1001. sh. 10/. pd 19 13,1n5 4/ per cent. Indemnity Alsriat 110/. 'h. 8/. psi 191 • 2,020 3! 100 Kent Fire 50/. sh. all pd S 2 2Z Ditto Life 79 10,°00 16s. law Life 100/. oh. 101. pd 153 1 9.000 10s. London, Fir . .2.51. sh. IV. 101 pd 1531 3,cyyd les. London, Snip 25/. oh. 151. 10s. pd 151 i 311,0'0 51 . per cent. Palladium Lit • 5Ol. sin 2/. pd 2/ Ss 04 5 ,, ,0fh) 4/. per cent. orotector Fir a 2Ol. sh. '2l. pd 17. 04 2,5151 I/. Provident I are 1 0/. ah. iOl. pd 20 pow , ss. Rock Lifen,... ........... 'o' sh. 1/. pd ( 1 3, .540;250/ 55 per cent. Royal Exchninge 6,00* 5 per cent. University I.:te 'oo/. 15. 51. pd 54 50,009 4 per cent. United Kinesions Life 5l. pd i. JOINT STOCK BANKS 250'1 8 per cent. Agric and Comm. of Ireland 251. oh. 10/. pd 14 ('5,009 ' 10,0 0 0 19 percent. Bank of 115 mingliam s'?. sh. 101. pd 13 1 10,000 11 per cent. Birminghlarn Bank . . 5O/. sh. 51. pd 164 po,ooo 5 per cent. London and Westminster -.100.1 sh. 20/. pd 211 1,000 4 per cent. Lancaster.......... lOOl sh. 4 0 4 pd 55 Pe.s ' 4lOO Liverpool- 'OOl sh. 101. pd 51 c50,0'0 73 per rent sLments,ter and Liverprioli 1001. sh. 151 pd 20 Discount •3 0 ,001 7 per text. Manchester. 1001. oh. 25/ pd 27 20,000 Provincial B ink of Ireland-RV. she 25!. psi 39 2t), CO National Bank of Ireland ...5-4. oh 1741. pd 16 35,000 5 per cent. National Priyincial Eng. -1001. eh. 35!. pd 34 3 ' , 19,000 Gloucestershire 501.5.h. 10/. pd 20 ' . ; 000 10 per cent. H amps hi re 50/. sh Si. pd SJ ''' ' GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. - • I, .2,501 1153 fid Bath 2O/. she lot pd 21 5,1101) British 4Ol. oh. 161. pd 21 . t5/.nercent.l Ditto 0,000 00 Its. 5 ,. Provincial 2Ol. sh. 10 4 223 928 5110 s Birmingham 5O/. she 98 1 0 . 150 2/ Os Bristol 2O . sh. 24 1,5(10 3 lOs Brighton I. 750 31 los Ditto, New 2Ol. sh. 13!. pd 1' .2, i 7 I 43 per rent. Brigoton General 20/. sin all pd 17 1,1) 4/, Continental Consolidated lOO/. 62)/. pd 85 1,000 In/. City of London lOO/. oh. all pd 184 .' 1,001 6/. Ditto, New 'OO/. oh. 601. lid 112 • 11,010 . 4/.l:'s. Equitable 'ol. pd 504 ' 10,1:00 24 per cent. Imperial 800 3. per cent. Isle nf l'hatiet '2sl. oh. 201. pd 20 2,3.50 Al. per cant. ndepanderrt "01. sh. ail psi 485 9,01.0 31. par cent. Phrenix .... 5O/. sh. 39/. pd 213 1,000 41. per cent. Ratelifr 100 L oh. 801. pd 511 1,0,44 . South Metropolitan WI. sh. 412. p 4 17 8,200 5/. per cent. United General .. -501. sh. 461. pd 24 249 5/. per cont. Warwick... .. 4 11 0 151. per cent Wakefield 15,0 0 0 31. West:l - 11.55:r Chartered 6,100 its. Ditto New . '4 1. sh 10/. pd 85 04,0 Yarmouth . 1 0/. sh. IS/. pd 9 WATER WORKS. '• 1,801 Ps. liwnsingham '2sl. sh. 55/ pd 213 1,474 65 Fast London 100!. sh. 149 • 6,500 21 113 (Jr end Junction' ....Average 111 135. 4d. sh. 51 1,01)0 21. Kent lOO/ sh 4.1 372 10/. Liverpool rlootle 2201. sh. 3..6 1,500 2/ 100 New :liver 1 onilon Bridge Water Annuities IS tl,lBll 1/ 15s Mnochester and Salford 1,4100 4 per evil. Ssuth Lon.loo lOO/. sh. /•7 5,204 4/. West Middlesex ....Average 6:31. 12s. Dd. she 90 1.3e41 1114 s York Builrling t'o. Lessee Prop 1001. sh. 35 IRON RAILWAYS. 6,000 Birmingham and Derby 9,500 Birmingham and Gloucester 7,500 Birmingham, Bristol, and Thsmes Junction Of 13,' , 00 .... ..... Bristol and Exeter 100/. sh. 10 pd 5 (WI ...... ... Calcutta and Saugur 5O/. sh. '2l. pd ei 7,5 44 0 ... .... Cheltenham and G. Western ..0001. she 741 24 3,014 Clarence lOO4 sh. 100/. pd 50 lls' l 0 Commercial Blackwall 51'1. sh 21. pd 04 ,4% 0 Dublin and Kilkenny 100/. oh. /3 pit lf 6 5 ,1100 Eastern Counties 25/, sh. 31. p.l 14 Grand Junction. 1001. she mt. p 4 151 Great North of England 5. 0 .01 Great Weslern • 1001 sh 65/. pd 2,01) t Latlvool 10 , )1. sh. 1(101 pd 0,000 111111 and nelby 50/. oh. 101. pd 10,)05 Leeds and Manchester 1 1.511. sh. 5/. pd 2,1 1 10 31. per cent. Leeds and Seihy . .... lOO sh. 1,500 11.55. Leicester and Swannington ....5 0 1. oh. all pd 5,105 so percent. Liver-pot and Manchester...lOU sh. 100/.151 10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares 251. Pd 3toooll London and Bright°, 5O/. sh. 51 pd 12,000 Lentlon and Blackwall 5O / sh 31 pd 10,000 :3 per cent. London and Greenwich 2O/.4. 20/. ixl 25,000 Landon an.: Brrininnhain ...100/. oh. 90/. pi - 1 Ditto Ouarter Shares Si pd London and Snuthampton ....SOL rh. 501. pd Ditto ditto New..... 5l. pd 7,000 ... ...... London and Croydon Trunk eel. sh. '2'l. pd 1,0 :0 Ditto Scrip 141. sh. 51. lel 12011.0 I sondon Grand Junction 511/. eh. 5/. pd 141,0:0 nt nehester aird Bicmingham 7ash. 71. pd North Midland 100/. sh. e5l. pit Northe• ma and Eastern ....101/, she si. sal 2,1501 08,010 r) Smith Eastern and Dover 7l. pd. 1, 4 '00 10!. per cent. Stockton and Darlington lOO/. oh. 9.000 ... ...... l'invi,es Haven 5Ol. sh '2l. 10s. ;.1 1,400 Westminster and Greenwich 501. oh. .21. pit 6,001 ~,•,,... York and North Midland ...50 . sh. 12/. pd MINES. Albion Copper 5/. sh. 231. pal IL ss. Allen 151. sh. 121. 10s pd Anglo Mexican, iss. 5/. prn....1001. oh. all pd Ditto Subscription 5 05/. N ?,1100 1 - I. Bole • 15:11. sh all pd 10,000 11. lOs . Brazilian Imp. iss. 31. pin 25/. sh. 1)0/. pd 11,0 0 sfacanbas Sr Cones United... 9 5/. sh. 201/. pd 11, 0 00 Ditto St. John Del Rey VOL oh. 91. pd 10,000 Bolivar Copper Company 201. she 201. pd 10,000 .......... Ditto Scrip... Itil. sh. 81. pd 20,0k10 British Iron SO!. sh. 501 pd 6,000 British Copper 5l. sh. 431. pd Cats Branca ((41. pd Candonga . 73/. pd 10,000 11 Copiapo 2Ol. sh 123/ pd 8,500 .5 Columbian, iss. Si. pm. 8n 2.0 31. English 20,000 General Mining Association...2ol. sh. 151. pd 4,155 Mexican Compsny 100/. sh. 554/. pi 3,00 1 9 • Polherou Consols lO/. sh 1. pd 11,500 Real del Monte, Unregistered Ditto Loan Notes l5Ol. pd United Mexican, iss. 2pm ....401. sh. all pd Mt 5. Scrip Ditto New Scrip 5/ pd West Cork - 5O/. she 50/. pa LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. 1,000 L o ndon, with Bronze Ticket 75 gs. s h e 1,500 ......... London University 101 - 1. she all pd , Russell °5 4 1. sin 70 0 ......... King ' College 1001. pa MISCELLANEOUS 10,000 ths. Australian Agricultural....lool . she 2011. P d 6,005 41. per cent. British American Land Company .. , 2;31. p.I 10,000 61 pe r cent. Canada Company 100/. sit. 281. pd 0 00,000 51, per cent. Upper Canada Loan. City Bonds, 4 per cent 15,000 ii. 6 , 0 General Steam N av i ga ti on ...151 n. 131. pd 101, per cent. Hudson's Bay Stec' London Corn. Sale R ooms Av. 731. s h e 8,0002 000 1 ... 1 .. ..... Caoutchouc Compa n y 2.51. el.. 2 New Brunswick ,and Company 4:11. pd . pd 2,754 5/, per cent Reversionary Interest 50c...1001. sh. 100/. pd 2,633 51, per cent. , Ditto New 100/. s h e 701. pd 4,000 '1 hames Tunnel 6.. Van Mennen's Land SOL she all pi 10,0 00 1001.0. 171. pd '2s (I,t ...... E,OOO 1,000 10,000 ..... 70,000 IA li II 1271 56 n sl LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES. DEC. 30, 1837. BANKS. i ,5 00,001i. N. p. et. Bank of S cot l an d 831. Sc Sd. s h. all pd 10 01 . 2 000,0 X/. 54 P. et. Royal of Scotland 10O. ch. all ; , d 16 ; / ', 00. 0w, 6p. t. British Limon Comp an y 1001.6 h. 11 p.i ~f V ;1 :3,000,0001. ri. p. ct. Commerci:4l VAL lb. 101, Pd 175 i. 5. AP_VI. 4 .Is -, ~ \ - tional .100/. sh. 101. Pd IS .2 . ()040001. 6/. p.ct. Glasgow Union 2W O. 50/. pd 69: spooot.ol. 4p. ct. Weitern of Scotland 200 L sh 301. pd Wl l . INSURANCE COMPANIES •)y .0004 h. tp. ct. Scott;sh Union 2O/. ch. 11. pd Zs - ,50Q 61 p. ct. Hercules 1(10/. oh. 101. pd 131 15i inc,eca) 5 p. ct. Insuranc e C o. o f S cot l an d —.lOl. sh. all pd Si 5, 5o pOO 6p. et. N , n•ti: reitiet - I: i . `, ;:. et. C , ...1c - Ll,ll:,ii Fir! , 100/. sit. 10/. ;•I 1 ~' ; ;,.,..: t' v vt. I. , .:xl . Argh Lire 10/. 111. l!' pet pet 11210 10(?,0001 St P. et. %Vest of Scotland ... ....... AO/. pd 5,,t - - _ ISCELI.ANEO U 3 4,810 .-. ..... Edin. and (Ilas. Un. CanaL 50/. sh. all pd S2l. Ditto Alluear.ed 9rl. sh. all pd 661. 5,400 5 per cent. Edinb. Joint Stock sh. sill pd 341. Carroll hen Company ..... 2501.8 h. all pd 451. 2,00001 15 per cent. Shotts Iran Foundery.... 5Ol. sh pd 421 1000) 3 per cent. Edinburgh & Leith Glass .- 201. sh. Ir/. nil . - 700 74 pu cent. 1..4t.n Cum zu/•sh• alt Pd 451 1,200 Edinburgh and Dalkeith Ray.way...so/. sh 501. 8,000 b per cent. Equitable Loan Corapanyne - 151. ob. 91, pd 101. FROM LAST NI HT'S GAZETTE. DOWNING-STREET, F. 6, The Queen has been pleased to appoint Sir Andrew Leith Hay, Krt. to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Bermudas or- Somers Islands. WHITEHALL, JAN. 10. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Leonard Shelford Bids, ell, EN., one of the Keepers of the Peace in the county of Suffolk.. WHITEHALL, F. 1. The Lord Chancellor has appointed William Pritt, of Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chii,cery. [This Gazette contains four Orders in Council, dabs(' the Ist inst., appointing Castleton a polling place for the northern division of Derbyshire ; Caistor, for the parts of Lindsey, in Linteolnshirc ; Longton, Lane End, and Henley, for the northern division of Staffordshire ; and Brinklow, for the northern division of War wickshire.] The following buildings arc certified as places duly registered for solemnizing Marriages, pursuant to the Act 6 and 7 William IV., cap. 85 : The Baptist Chapel, Uckfield, Sussex. William Ashby Rooke, Superintendent Registrar. St. John's Chapel, Warrington, Lancashire. William Wagstaff, Superintendent Registrar. The Baptist Chapel, St. Andrew's-street, Cambridge. Josh. Fetch, Superintendent Registrar. The Independent Chapel, High-street, Lerwestoft, Suiffolk. Ed mund Norton, Superintendent Registrar. The Scotch Presbyterian Chapel, Lowthef-street, Carlisle. Simon Ewart, Superintendent Registrar. The Old Independent Chapel, Warminster-toad, 'Westbury, Wiltshire. H. Pinniger, Superintendent Registrar. Mount Pleasant General Baptist Chapel, Stalvbridge r _Ashton under-Lyne. R. Worthington, Superintendent Registrar. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. THOMAS DE AKIN and JOHN VIPOND, ironmongers, Pontypool, Monmouthshire. BANKRUPTS. CAREY HENRY METIVIER, cloth-factor, Wotton-under edge, to surrender Feb. 26 and March 20, at ten, at the Old Bell Inn, Dursley. Ball, Bedford-row, London; Weight, Wootton under-edge. JOSEPH PICKSLEY, joiner and builder, Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire, Feb. 21, at twelve, and March 20, at eleven, at the Commercial Hall, Bolton-le-Moors. Milne, Parry, Milne, mad Morris ; Temple, London ; Taylor, Bolton-le-Moors. WILLIAM HIRST, cloth-manufacturer, Leeds, Feb. 10, and March 20, at eleven, at the Court-house, Leeds. Snowden, Leeds; Lambert and Burder, Raymond-buildings, Gra7's Inn, London. EVAN JONES, linen-draper, Swansea, Feb. 16, and March 20, at twelve, at the Mackworth Arms Inn, Swansea. Walters, Swansea. . THOMAS ROBERTS, cattle-dealer, Gillingham, Dorsetshire, Feb. 12, at eleven, at the Crown Inn, Sturminster, and March 20, at eleven, at the Greyhound Inn, Blandford Forum. Dean, Guildford-street, London ; Dashwood, Newton, Dorsetshire. HENRY ROBERT DOLMAN DALTON, distiller, Bolton le-Moors, Lancashire, Feb. 21, and March 20, at ten, at the Com mercial Inn, Bolton•le-Moors, Lancashire. Walter and Pember ton, Symond's Inn, London ; Tolson, Bradford, Yorkshire. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. I. and I. Sully, merchants, St. Mary-axe, March 1, at twelve --W. and W. M. Porter, merchants, Copthall-court, Throgmor ton-street, Feb. 27-0. Evans, surgeons, Ulster-place, Regent's Park, Feb. 27, at eleven—H. Poulton, Torquay, Devonshire, Feb. 27, at two—E. Riley, tailor, Argyll-place, Regent-street, Feb. 27, at twelve—W. F. Woodgate, banker, Tonbridge, Kent, Feb. 28, at one—Sir G. Duckett, Bart., and Co., bankers, Pen man, Feb. 28, at twelve—W. Kilbe an C. Ludyatt, licensed vic tuallers, Gravesend, March 1, at one—J. Pratt, ironmonger , King-street, St. James's, Feb. 27, at twelve—G. S. Haywood , wine merchant, Exeter-street, Strand, March 1, at twelve—M. A• Stevens and A. Oldroyd, boarding-house keepers, Bedford-square , St. Giles-in-the-Fields, March I, at eleven. In the Country. .T. Beard and J. B. Herbert, timber dealers, Gloucester, March 1, at eleven, at the Office of Mr. Washbourne, Gloucester---l• Wheater, cloth manufacturer, Fernley, Yorkshire, March 2, a t one, at the Court House, Leeds—T. Buckley and R. Kennan, mer chants Liverpool, Feb. 28, at one, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liver -. pool-11. Chiesman, builder, Leeds, Yorkshire, March 1, at eleven , at the Court House, Leeds—T. Palmer, commission agents, Uppe r Porchester-street, Edgeware-road, March 17, at eleven, at the Union Inn, Birmingham—J. Bury, butcher,. Kinfare, Stafford shire, Feb. '27, at one, at the Black Horse Inn, Kidderminster -- G. Ogilvy, carpet manufacturer, Kidderminster, Worcester, Feb. , 27, at eleven, at the Black Horse Inn, Kidderminster—J. Whitaker: packer, Manchester, March 14, at twelve, at the Commissioners Rooms, Manchester—T. Pearson and R. G. Roberts, timber mer chants, Liverpool, Feb. 27, at one, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liver pool—G. Richmond, miller, Ruiton, Staffordshire, Feb. 28, e t twelve, at the Lion Inn, Wolverhampton—J. Menham, shipowner , St o nehousc, Devonshire, March 1, at eleven, at the Royal Hote l, Plymouth. CERTIFICATES, FEB. 27. J. S. Bramhall, cutler, Bristol—J. Osborn, horsedealer, Uppe r Montague-street, Montague-square—C. Humbersten and S. Fo r "' sham, commission merchants, Liverpool—J. Jarman, chandle r ' Exeter—P. Walker, cotton spinner, Hindley, Lancashire. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. 11. L. Routh and Co., merchants, Leghorn—R. Abball and 'I% Usmarr, schoolmasters, Epping, Essex—J. and E. Neighbou r ' drapers, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire—H. H. Smith and Wright, coachmakers, Cambridge—T. Ridgway aad Co., t e* dealers, King William-street, City (as far as regards J. R. An drews) —W. J. Johnstone and Co., brewers, Bedford, Bedford' shire (as far as regards C. Redden) -3. 'Broadhurst and G. II ward, straw bonnet makers, Coventry—C. B. anti C. Wright , auctioneeet, Greenwich, Kent—W. Cousins and H. Roche, Bristol —J. Williams and Co. attorneys-at-law, Bedford-row (as far a S regards J. Williams)—G. and H. Fox, letter-press printers, 3 1 a," - chester—C. Payne and Co., hat manufacturers, Bristol—J. D' Elliott and Co., bootmakers, Haokney, Middlesex—J. and W. „ i ll' Townsend, stage-coach proprietors, Bristol—ll. Slater and ri• Swindells, printers, Hyde, Cheshire—J. and W. Crowther, ce rn millers, Sowerby Bridge, Yorkshire—J. and H. Hirst, woolstapler .s, Huddersfield, Yorkshire—M. Haley and J. Tetlow, tool makers. Manchester—R. and J. Slater, hoop makers, Lower Team, Staf fordshire—W. Bucknall and Co., cork merchants, Crutched-fri ars —W. Boyle and Ce., paper hangers, Ludgate-hill (as far as r elates to A. Johnston)-_T. and L. Jone,ropemakers, Aberystwith, diganshire—J. T. Filder and aberdashers, Waterloo-pl ace ' Limehouse (as far as regards Co.,j. T. Filder)—R. Martin and J. Rhodes, lithographers, Long-acre—B. Neville and Co., wholesale hosiers, Goldsmith-street, Cheapside (as far as regards li. Nevill e) E. Verrall and Co., brewers, Werthing, Sussex. " JANE LOMAx.'—ln reading this new novel, the author of ‘, Brambletye House," it is impossible to avoid bring struck with the resemblance the characters of the Le mazes bear to those of Macbeth and his wife, however the scenes and subjects may differ from that noblest effort of its great author. To effect this resemblance without plagiarism re' quired unusual dexterity—and it is done. To place the se characters in positions where they might exhibit their nature without violating reality, and plunge into the depth of crime without exciting abhorrence, was, indeed, a task of difficulty -- ; yet the conception is wrought out with singular force, and the scenes are sustained with remarkable fidelity. The increased importation of coals into London: for the year 1837 over 1836, was 221,145 tens—say 5 6 ,,' ships, the total import being 8,780 ships, 2,626,297 tons. i ll addition to this we find an increase of 638 loaded ships, fro foreign ports, during 1837, or 49,751 tons.—Sunderla nt' Beacon. Two hundred gallons of soup have been distributed to the poor of Ches:erfield during the week.—North Derby' shire Chronicle. PRIZE CUP S.—Ness and Second-hand SIL VEI PRIZE CUPS are offered at very Reduced Prices, and selectiot may be made from a great variety, both of Sizes and Patterns , .! T. COX SAVORY'S, Goldsmith, and Watchmaker, 47, Combo", London (Seven Doors from Gracechurch-street). A Sheet °I Drawings of Cups will be forwarded b 3 post, as a single letter, i° answer to a post-paid application. B 1117715. On the ht of February, the lady of Captain William Henry Hollis, of a son. On the 2d inst., at Peckham-rye, Mrs. E. M. Hardy, of a son. On the 29th of October last, at Bangalore, the lady of Lieut. -A• F. Oakes, of a son. On the Ist inst., at Upper Tooting, the lady of N. F. Edwards, Esq., Lieut. R.N., of a daughter, still-born. At Woolwich, on the 31st ult., Mrs. Burke Cuppage, of a son. On the 31st ult., at Richmond, the wife of Colonel Sir J. Bryant of twins, a boy and a girl. On the 3d inst., in South Audley-street, the lady of E. Knig ht, jun., Esq., of a son. ■ MARRIED. Yesterday, at the Church of St. Ann and Agnes, Aldersgat°' Mr. Matthew Liggs to Miss Elizabeth Brown, both of Sudbury. _ On the Ist inst., at St. Peter's, Thanet, the Rev. John G eorg° , Hodson, Curate of St. Peter's, to Matilda Georgisna, young e t daughter of the late M. Isacke, Esq., of Croom's-hill, Greinwic'" and North Foreland Lodge, St. Peter's. On the 26th ult., at Aston, Birmingham, J. C. APLaren, Esq'' of Edinburgh, to Clara, seventh daughter of Mr. G. Sao, ° Southampton. DIED. On the 4th inst., in Shoe-lane, Fleet-street, Mr. Peter Jacks ° ' aged 73. On the 2d inst., at the Rectory, Tarrant Hinton, Blandford, De. l ; set, the Rev. Robert Corry, DI. A., formerly Fellow of Dttloi College, and for twenty years morning preacher at St. George a, Bloomsbury. On the 31st ult., at Knaresborough, Richard Terry, Esq., l ate banker of that place. On the 2d inst., at King's-road, Chelsea, Alfred Wm. Goddar d ' aged 33. On the 31st ult., Josepha Eliza, eldest daughter of the Rev. Popple, of Welton, near Hull. On the 2d inst., Sarah, eldest daughter of Thos. Brown, Esq'' of Burderop, Wilts. On the 2d inst., a t th e G rove , H ac k ne y, aged 82, Joanna, re lict of Mr. T. Rutt, of Shacklewell. At Dover, on th e 2d i ns t., Oli v i a F rances , daughter of J. Fiti gerald, Esq. , jun. On the 31st ult., at the Barracks, Island-bridge, Dublin, ag e 37, Lieut. Dawson Warren, Adjutant R A., eldest son of the Re v D. Warren, Vicar of Edmonton. Oa th" 31st ult., at the residence of her son in-law, Hannah, re lict of L. Lyons, Esq., aged 70. Philip On the Ist inst., at Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park, Levys, Esq , formerly of Jamaica. On the 2d i ns t., age d 70, J o h n C o l e by, E s q., of Amity, n ear () Alton, Hampshire. On the 29. h ult., at Stockwell-green, Mrs. Elizabeth Mather, '— the 2,7 th uit., .at St. Omer, Lieutenant-Colonel A. Dickson, late of the 40th Regiment. On the 21st ult., at Maidstone, Eleanor Hooter, relict of Ge o ' Ansell, Esq., aged 74. On the 23d ult, at Bruges, Joseph Shee, Esq., aged 7 3 . On the 31 s t ult., at Camberwell, Wm. Augustus Woollastorlf Esq., aged 66. i 1 Liii C , A uy kiDti Utii“-;0" t • 112, Strand, at The Suit Office, No. 11 0 , Strand, in the coal Y c f Nliddlesex.—Wednesday, February 7, 1838.